chakra777

Bought the drill back in Feb 2012 through home depot online and been using it pretty hard since then. I added the 3 ah batter since there was the option for durability. I am a furniture installer, every once in a while we came across very tight screws in metal. Today we were working with a metal piece that was poorly manufactured, so the screws where crosstighning (entre roscando). There was this one screw I could get half way in, but could not leave it like that so I wanted to take it out. It got stuck. Since it was turning only at the beginning of the trigger touch, I started pressing and releasing, pressing and releasing. Was turning slowly but then a little smoke started to show so I stopped the drill immediately, but still white smoke kept coming out of it. On the spot I was told to remove the battery so I did and blew all the smoke out to cool down the drill. I let the drill sit for about 2 hrs, then tried it. Of course I down graded the battery to the 1.5 ah. It seems to be working fine... but I lost my trust on the drill. One of the guys at work said once he had a drill that smoked like that once, then after a few months it was through. I work in a Makita environment and until now I was very proud of my Dewalt. I was thinking on selling it while it still runs and get a Makita... I just don't know what to do. Tomorrow I have to go to work and will have to use it again... I don't know how damaged is my gun :-\